NASA Centaur Art Challenge

NASA and Ingenuity are teaming up to help celebrate one of the most important projects in America’s exploration of space: The Centaur upper stage rocket developed at the Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.

Dubbed “America’s Workhorse in Space”, Centaur has been central to launching a tremendous variety of the nation’s most demanding space missions over a period of decades. Centaur has been used to launch most of U.S. lunar & interplanetary missions (such as Voyager to the outer planets, Viking to the surface of Mars, Cassini to Saturn, Surveyor series to the lunar surface, Mariner series to the inner solar system, and New Horizons to the Pluto/Kuiper Belt).

After its utilization in more than 200 unmanned missions, NASA GRC is celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Centaur with an educationally inspired art competition in partnership with Ingenuity. The goals of this competition are to commemorate the anniversary, while conveying some of the key engineering accomplishments of the Centaur Program to the artistic community and the general public.

Artists of any discipline and age are invited to submit proposals or work to the competition. Prizes will include: